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When Georgian-speaking Christians began translating Scripture, liturgy, and patristic writing, they inherited no single Greek word that could simply be carried across as “holiness.” Greek Christian texts drew upon a crowded semantic field: hagios named what belonged to God and, substantivally, the saints;…
This article asks how Wesleyan-Holiness theology can account for sustained recovery without spiritualizing substance use disorder or reducing recovery to abstinence and clinical stabilization. Using Richard Osmer’s four practical-theological tasks, it places addiction medicine and recovery research in disciplined dialogue with Scripture and…
Christian influence is commonly measured by reach, access, authority, or institutional success. Scripture subjects it to a more demanding judgment. Jesus places authority beneath the cross, the pastoral epistles test leadership through observable character, and the fruit of the Spirit reveals whether public…
The Disposable Society and the God Who Restores examines the tension between accountability and human dignity in a culture increasingly shaped by disposability. Drawing on Scripture, Wesleyan-Holiness theology, and the Salvationist tradition, the essay argues that Christian restoration begins with the conviction that…
Extreme ascetic practices among the Desert Fathers and Stylites have traditionally been interpreted through theological, spiritual, and historical frameworks. Solitude, fasting, repetitive prayer, sensory deprivation, prolonged standing, and bodily exposure are commonly understood as forms of renunciation, spiritual warfare, discipline, and devotion to…
Why did God suddenly seek to kill Moses immediately after commissioning him at the burning bush? Why did Zipporah's swift action avert divine judgment? Exodus 4:24–26 remains one of the most enigmatic and least-preached passages in the Hebrew Bible. This study offers a…
This article examines the central conceptual difficulty of dyothelite Christology: how Jesus Christ can possess two complete natural wills, divine and human, without becoming two agents or a psychologically divided person. Building on the definition of the Third Council of Constantinople, the anthropology…
This article examines Revelation 2–3 as a practical framework for studying and applying the book of Revelation. It argues that the seven messages to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea provide readers with a clear method of observation, interpretation, and application.…